Suspect was registered as Republican voter, state records show
abcnews.go.com

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspectin Saturday’s shooting, was registered as a Republican voter, according to Pennsylvania records.

Already the republicans are dismissing his voter registration as meaningless. Here comes the “mental illness” angle.

Edit: apparently it’s not uncommon to register with the party you oppose in PA. This is going to be a fun ride.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
      37·
      4 months ago

      He was 20. He could have voted only in a single election. Someone said he donated to democrats 3 years ago. This math is confusing the fuck out of me.

      • DragonTypeWyvern
        141·
        4 months ago

        A person with his name donated $15 on the day Biden was inaugurated, when he was 17.

        • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
          16·
          4 months ago

          With just the same first and last name, where as the Republican party registration had other corroborating data, such as middle initial, address, and date of birth.

          So the donation is nowhere near as solid as the Republican party registration.

        • MagicShel@programming.dev
          5·
          4 months ago

          17 year olds, supposedly. (I can’t verify the three years ago, so grain of salt.)

          This doesn’t really make sense and we might just have to wait for actual details from the investigation.

          • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            51·
            4 months ago

            Some people are saying $10, which is a lot more to a kid than to an adult. But kids can afford $10.

            EDIT: $15 to more reliable sources. Still in the rough ballpark tho

    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
      171·
      4 months ago

      Apprently that was a differnet person in Philly that shares his first and last name.

          • jeffw@lemmy.world
            31·
            4 months ago

            NYTimes, so there’s a paywall. It links to the FEC (wouldn’t load on mobile for me but the FEC page did fully load on my desktop).

            https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/us/politics/trump-gunman-thomas-crooks.html

            Edit: actually, the article has been updated since I read it. It no longer links to the FEC, just a NYT screenshot:

            https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/fe91e6ba36695009/ac182c3a-full.pdf

            Though it says Pitt, the zip is a Bethel Park zip

            A voter-registration record showed Mr. Crooks’s Republican registration, though federal campaign-finance records show he donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic donation platform ActBlue in January 2021.

            • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
              51·
              4 months ago

              Where as the Republican party registration has other corroborating information listed, the donation doesn’t have anything other than the same first and last name. So it’s not confirmed to be the same guy yet.

              • jeffw@lemmy.world
                12·
                4 months ago

                Name, job, and zip code. Find me another guy living in Bethel Park with the same name who was unemployed in 2021 (edit: Bethel Park has 4 zip codes, so not even all of Bethel Park. People really think there’s another guy with such a unique name in town? None of his relatives share the same name, so an unrelated guy?)

                • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  4 months ago

                  I think you’re misreading me.

                  I’m saying the Republican party registration has those things, but the donation doesn’t, so could be from someone with the same first and last name from anywhere.

                  So the Republican party registration is this more corroborated by having the extra information. Whereas the donation isn’t, due to not having that extra information with it.

                  • jeffw@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    4 months ago

                    The donation does have those things. I think you’re misreading me (or the FEC filing).

                    The FEC filing shows name and zip code, as well as the job. It matches the voter registration. If you think there are 2 Thomas Crooks in the same 5 sq mi radius that were both unemployed at the same time, that’s pretty wild. By all means, use WhitePages to find a second Thomas Crooks who lived in 15102 in 2021 who could’ve given that donation.

              • jeffw@lemmy.world
                1·
                4 months ago

                He lives there too. Without doxing anyone or putting their info on here, you can read in the news that they all live together (dad, mom, son. Sister moved out a couple years ago)

                • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  4 months ago

                  Yes, I know.

                  So in the house you had the mother, the father Matthew, and the son Thomas.

                  Then the ActBlue donation is to a Thomas Crooks with the street address registered to Matthew Crooks.

                  So the idea that the donation was from some other Thomas Crooks seems unlikely, no?

                  Unless there’s some unmentioned Thomas Crooks that was living in the house Jan 2021.

        • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
          3·
          4 months ago

          Lots of noise right now. Dont have a source past a random comment, so doubt is warranted.